Comments on: A Final Episode?

By: Joseph Kugelmass

Joseph Kugelmass — Fri, 11 May 2007 08:17:57 +0000

E, thank you. I was abashed to return. The kindnesses of NP here, and LarvalSubjects, and the Citizen of Somewhere Else, were instrumental in my decision to return. One thing a community can do is encourage its members, and watch out for them, and I think the community here is solid enough to stand the occasional troll.

By: N Pepperell

N Pepperell — Wed, 09 May 2007 00:05:45 +0000

Thanks for bumping this post - I've been meaning, actually, to post an update that The Kugelmass Episodes are back on the air - with an amazing flurry of posts that I've been longing to respond to, if only I can get some marking out of the way...

By: E

Tue, 08 May 2007 04:27:47 +0000

I can empathize with Joseph Kugelmass’ position after reading his account. There is a lot to risk with commenting and blogging under your own name. So anonymity is perhaps the way to go. Perhaps anonymity is more important for women than men, as men do still have some degree of protection via patriarchy. Someone can make another person’s life hell, by removing a comment from a blog and taking it out of context of the overall blog and act of blogging and do this without any risk to themselves via remaining anonymous or just stalking the blog. This act is one without courage or honour. And things like this certainly it means that people are less likely to post anything remotely controversial or interesting or even critical if someone (stalker or pseudonym) is going to try to nail them for it later without the surrounding context of the blog.